Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.